Thursday, January 11, 2018

(Tunis) Since starting with one small protest on Sunday Tunisian
demonstrators have defied the threat of a security clampdown and spilled onto the streets of the capital
and at least four other towns for a third night of violent protests fuelled by
economic hardship after the government hiked prices of staple goods and
introduced new taxes at the start of the year to try to tackle a ballooning
deficit and appease foreign lenders.

Late on Tuesday, clashes erupted in more than 20 towns, as
protesters attacked police stations and government buildings and torched cars,
also hurling petrol bombs at a Jewish school on the southern tourist island of
Djerba.